Dean of Admissions
Welcome to the James Madison University's Web-site. I am excited that you are considering JMU!
James Madison University is a public residential university (Fall 2011 enrollment: 19,600) located in Harrisonburg, Virginia in the heart of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. JMU seeks to enroll students with the potential for success; students with strong academic credentials and demonstrated leadership abilities; students with exceptional talents, achievements, and experiences. When you combine the individuality of each student, the collective talents of all our students and a faculty committed to their students, the result is a rich and vibrant environment conducive to exploration and learning. JMU is privileged to have an outstanding group of students who come from throughout Virginia, forty-nine states and over sixty different countries.
I hope that you will be sure to examine the many facets of James Madison University. Be sure to check the academic and student life web-pages and if you have questions please email us by clicking here.
"A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
- Letter to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822 (Madison, 1865, III, page 276)
